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I recently installed linuxmce 8.10 and the restricted software package. I can play DVDs that I've previously burned, but when I put in a normal DVD I see the "Disk detected in drive" screen and it keeps popping up even if I close out of the screen. I was able to play normal DVDs if I went to the KDE desktop and played them with xine there. Anyone have any clues why it's doing this?

The restricted package is to do with video drivers for the nvidia/ati cards (please correct me if I'm wrong).

If you remember when you installed 710 when you were doing the media wizard you could optional download 2 drivers for cisco? phones, CSS DVD and w32/64 codecs.

libdvdcss is for accessing and unscrambling DVDs encrypted with the CSS system. It is part of the VideoLAN project and is used by VLC and all other open source DVD players such as Ogle, xine-based players and MPlayer.

w32codecs is a package of codecs needed to play multiple formats, notably DivX, MP3's, etc.

The last time I downloaded and installed 810 these choices had not been populated yet in the add software section.

As far as I've tested it happens with all original DVDs, but not with any burned DVDs. I've only tried 2 original discs so far, Kiss of the Dragon and Babylon AD. I'm pretty sure Kiss of the Dragon doesn't have any elaborate copy protection like Casino Royale.

As far as I've tested it happens with all original DVDs, but not with any burned DVDs. I've only tried 2 original discs so far, Kiss of the Dragon and Babylon AD. I'm pretty sure Kiss of the Dragon doesn't have any elaborate copy protection like Casino Royale.

The copy protection scheme varies depending in which area of the world it is bought too. It seems.Mine is from sweden and I know people that have bought the same movie in germany and those discs do not have the same kind of protection.

Setting the region didn't change anything. I think linuxmce just doesn't like my DVD drive(it works fine in KDE). It's a plextor px-716a. I had DVDs playing with an older generic drive, but the rips were too slow and it had problems reading disks that had shinny surfaces on both sides of the disk. I think it's about time I got a new drive, any suggestions?